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$DirOwner
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**Type:** global configuration directive

**Default:**

**Description:**

Set the file owner for directories newly created. Please note that this
setting does not affect the owner of directories already existing. The
parameter is a user name, for which the userid is obtained by rsyslogd
during startup processing. Interim changes to the user mapping are not
detected.

**Sample:**

``$DirOwner loguser``

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